Gavin Peacock is a former QPR, Chelsea and Newcastle midfielder as well as commentator, but he has moved away from the pitch toward becoming a Pastor.
Here's an interesting article in the Times about him, here's a quote out of it:
"I want to say to young kids, in a country that says success is fame and having ambition and money and cars and beautiful women and sex, ‘That’s not it, you hit the ceiling and there’s something else instead.’ ”
HT:Stephen Murray